have enjoyed a beautiful view. largest this is a place to take someone public housing development i know well the challenges special on a romantic stroll and the housing authority and residents face. enjoyed a beautiful look out. i left an hour and a half meeting with residents over at alice griffith; welcome to corona heights we deal with many of the located in the heart of this challenges on a daily basis. not a day goes by when my district. staff or i are contacted or it offers a view of the downtown personally affected -- when i skyline, the bay bridge, and the east bay. consider that i have it is one of the best kept secrets in the city. family members that stay in these developments, it is hardly ever crowded. on any given day, you will run into a few locals. or when i received complaints about maintenance, , bought a 37 bus to get there and on a positive note, without any parking worries. good news when we receive grants from the federal government to help with the sf for legged friends can run rebuild. freely. there is also a patch of grass two weeks ago i attended a for the small box. >> it is a great place. ribbon-cutting ceremony when it is a wonderful place to have the mayor, i am whole community these kinds of parks. that dog owners appreciate it.

got the opportunity to tour a >> take time to notice of the wildfires that are on the 4-unit building. grassland and keep your head out we are progressing and moving on the lookout for hawks and in the right direction, other bird life. departing from the way we have be sure to take your camera and been conducting business as it be prepared to take a view of relates to our housing. the city will not forget. it is no surprise that the it has a beautiful red rock housing authority formations. has struggle with the more than 200 million unfunded maintenance liability, and you could watch the sunrise over the bay. decreasing resources from hud. i appreciate the budget analyst's presentation and this is another one of our great willingness to work with the board on this particular issue. lookouts. we are at mount davidson. however there are a number of realities that i want this audit to recognize and incorporate into its framework 928 feet. this is the place for you to and i'm going to go down quickly, and circle back and provide you bring someone special. with detailed documentation. to not forget that dogs and enjoy all of the pathways and just to help shape the conversation. greenery that surrounds you. i think it is essential it provides a peaceful oasis of that the audit be done in tandem with hud, open space and great hiking currently conducting nodded of the agency. trails.

both of you have stated that. the spectacular view offers a it is my understanding that hud perfect place to watch the will be issuing a corrective sunrise or sunset with someone plan sometime in march about you love. >> it is a good place to get how the agency can improve. away from the hectic life of the therefore i believe that the city. come up here and listen to audit should be informed by this corrective plan. nature, i get some fresh air. and corrective action plans. that view is fantastic. >> where sturdy shoes. any recommendation that hud makes because -- hikers get the feeling of being ultimately they are the funders in a rain forest. mount davidson is also a great of the agency. additionally when the budget place to escape the noise and the bustle of the city. analyst look at the finances of the agency, it is important to keep in mind the number of programs take the 36 bus and it will drop and public policy decisions we make you at the entrance. to improve the lives of our it is quite a hike to the top residents. this includes such things as the housing authority funds a but the view is worth every step. this is the place to bring that someone special. weekend garbage pickup service. something my office and the mayors office led the effort

of trying to organize garbage pickup. believe it or not they don't golden gate park's largest body of water is an enchanting place. have garbage pickup service on the weekend. is a popular spot for paddling it was expensive to solve the around in boats, which can be rented. created in 1893, it was designed for these your boating -- for problem, more than a million dollars in police services. leisure boating. we have an unbelievable crime it is named for the wild problem. how like analysts to look at strawberries that once flourished. the current level of there is also a waterfall, two recollection at the properties and make recommendations about how to improve the effort to increase. the resources within the agency. bridges, and trails the climb to the summit, the highest point at more than four hundred feet. you can catch glimpses of the to make it plain, western side of the city that they are people not paying the rent. make this hilltop a romantic you are an analyst, you can look out. appreciate this. for public transit, i take the n when it revenue. i am looking for suggestions train. the lad the ad -- lake is ada

a humane way to address this discrepancy. accessible. i would like to budget analyst to take a look at the cost watch many ducks, swans, and the agency incurs when moving tenants from a different property largely siegel's. due to the public safety concern. -- seagulls. it is an exorbitant amount of it is a great place to stroll cost. and sail away. many couples come here to take a getting units up and ready. ride around a lake, going under it will be helpful for the budget analyst to look at the bridges, passing the chinese pavilion and the waterfall. other housing authorities in for a quiet getaway, making for california. supervisor campos mentioned a memorable and magical this. very fortuitous. experience. or other states. urban properties, section 8 program. located on 19th avenue, this my understanding is that we growth is the place to where could better administer you're hiking boots, bring the our section 8 program. family and the dog because it i would like to hear ideas that you come up with. has so much to offer you and your loved ones. it is a truly hidden gem in the

i want to hear creative solutions and recommendations city. the park is rich with eucalyptus trees. that are informed about the long paths allow you to work that hud is doing so that we board members can provide meander, perfect for a dog policy direction to the authority walking in a wooded environment. and also support our public >> i enjoy the history. housing residents and begin to address our house the diversity of nature that and challenges which is no secret. exists in such an urban city, we are facing serious challenges. concrete streets, cars, we have i can provide you with documents that would be to everything for you. and i appreciate you, in the this oasis of the natural environment. it reminds us of what the task that you are going to be history was. undertaking. >> there is a section for dogs i do believe this is in the and plenty of parking. best interest of all of san francisco, not just our housing residents. transit is available on the 28 bus to get you very easily. i'm glad that you researched, the part is ada -- park is ada 1993 is a long time. i think i was a sophomore in high school. accessible. here we are today dealing with it is also a natural lake. it in 2013. this is your chance to stroll around the lake and let the kids

i am optimistic and full of hope run free. it also has many birds to watch. that we will get some tangible answers and suggestions it is a place to find and that we can begin to implement. >> chair: thank you. appreciate what you -- a important suggestions and things we will follow through. the follow-up question for you. wonderful breath of fresh air. in terms of the question before come and experience in this park us, it is brought in terms of and enjoy the people, picnics, the categories for the audit. abc to f. and sunshine. this is a lovely place to take a anyone alone can be a significant and large audit. stroll with your loved ones. i would like for you to explain how you will get it to a place where it is manageable. this is an important topic, and other audits that will be bringing back his priorities. i will like for you to narrow down the focus and in terms of timing, how much time will be

dedicated, how many hours. what does that mean for the entire portfolio for the audits that we have on-site for the 2013 year? >> i like to answer all of that but the scope recommended in the motion is broad so that we could make the assessment and determine what are the highest priorities. what will benefit the city? what can have a real impact? that will frame the questions we ask as to how we conduct our risk assessment. in terms of the logistics, and we would develop a much more refined work plan based on that, we would want to complete this by may, before the budget review in june. there is no benefit to dragging it longer than that. i am assuming that this will go to the board on tuesday, the following tuesday.

we will be prepared to begin as soon as it is approved. we are already reviewing other documents. in terms of the overall audit program, we have to present to the gao shortly a work plan for 2013. i believe it will look similar to the work plan in 2012, allocating 5000 out of the 17,000 or contract to special projects in audit. some of that a special requests from the supervisors; also perhaps 3000 hours, -- we would bring that shortly. this is one audit to be conducted during the course of the year. in terms of where we are now,

we are completing today the final draft on the public safety realignment audit, submitting that to departments to get written comments.we hope to present up to the board of supervisors next week. we have an outstanding audit on the redevelopment agency that we want to discuss with this committee. our goal is to -- the amendment is looking at 12-1500, we cannot do all of it by may. we want to discuss with you what are your priorities and help you decide what some of the highest cost and risk issues are. in terms of the work both supervisor campus and cohen

talk about working in tandem with the hud audit, in some of the findings to inform this process as opposed to duplicating this. i imagine it going to this risk assessment that we could narrow the focus with intention not to duplicate some of the work done by hud, correct? >> correct. >> chair: supervisor campos? >> supervisor campos: thank you for your comments supervisor cohen. it is important to take all those points into consideration. we welcome any additional feedback not only for members of this committee but also from members of the board. other members of the board. i wanted to get a better sense sort of what it means to work in tandem with hud for instance. one of the items that we have this compliance

with applicable laws, federal, state, local. i imagine that would mean that hud is focusing on how federal law is being followed. and that for you to focus would be more than what is happening with local compliance. is that how it would work? >> anything specific to hud, the governing agency, we would leave to them. but i say that sort of looking over not just laws, legal compliance, might be in hud's purview. we would take much more of a focus on the city's priorities.

i do know - especially when we talk about policies % there are many city policies and priorities that are different from what hud wants. we would look at that and how it fits together. i say that because i think that there are things about rent collection, tenant eviction policies, housing replacement policies that are important to the city that maybe hud has a different point of view on. >> supervisor campos: supervisor cohen mentioned the issuing of grants, purchasing, contracting. i assume policies around those issues would be things included in your review. >> that is correct. part of the government accountability office auditing standards are to consider what other audits have revealed. to some extent it is just an efficiency issue.

they will be coming up with findings in march. we will be completing i work until probably . sometime after that we can look at some of their issues and say they are addressing it or, there is a city perspective on this and we want to take a step further. i had a discussion with mr. peterson from the housing authority about the fact that the housing authority said they are not meeting their asset management program. how hud has dealt with that is to say that we are going to reduce your allocation; this is a punitive action because you have not met the strict area. he described some of the issues about them not meeting their asset management program makes me think that the commission and the city they want to say that this is the way that you should be meeting it and you could be meeting it and go a step further with that. i don't know all of the conditions. i know what he said to us about some of the failures. those are things the city could address quite easily.

those are some of the areas where we might take what they do and then move a step further with it. >> supervisor campos: last thing i want to say, and i hope that you will also look at, not only sort of the performance of the agency. but i think it would also be appropriate, and i think it is very timely given the housing audit that you did last year, how the city can also better support the agency itself because there is an interconnection between what they are doing and what we are doing. i am certainly interested in that piece as well. >> okay. thank you and final piece. my colleagues mentioned some great areas to focus on from their perspective. one area i think just to flush out that i think is interesting to me as well that would be informative is what the housing authority's financial planning processes look like,

whether following best practices with regards to find, budgeting, these are things that to the extent they are successful in that arena they are able to deal with a lot more the issues that people care about, day-to-day, how our units maintain, are repairs done in a timely way. those of things that can be strengthened if they have a firm financial planning and footing. there is a place we can look at as well. thank you. >> supervisor campos: i forgot to add, wondering if have any thoughts on this. a lot of information we get not only comes from the agency itself but we also hear from the residence. i don't know if there is any opportunity at times to hear from some of the folks that may be impacted by it in a more direct way.

>> they are already calling us. there are advisory committees established by hud. one for the voucher payment program; one for the housing program. we including any work plan no matter what the risk assessment focus group meetings, talking to the residents, because they can inform us about how effective the management is of the properties themselves. >> thank you supervisors. >> supervisor cohen: i also was going to highlight that each property has a tenant association and there is a large association, the public housing tenants association which has representative from all across the city.

they have a citywide perspective and meet on a regular basis. this is outside of the commission that i'm talking about. what you are talking about is having feedback from the tenant, those persons on the ground receiving these benefits. i find it most helpful to attend the tenants' meeting on a fairly regular basis. >> we would do that. we did the audit of the communities we did meet with a tenant association. we have already that connection. >> chair: thank you very much. without any other questions why do we open this for public comment. are there members of the public who wish to speaks? >> i am requesting to speak more than 2 minutes. i am an authority. you check your records, and you

will see ace washington. you're looking at someone that has authority and knows exactly about housing authority, knows what the tenants want. the scope back to what we were talking about this history here. it is no secret that number one, public safety is what the most important thing of the tenants there. they don't have the money to do it. hud cut off their money. i appreciate campos what you are doing here, but i'm ready to get to the quick. 10 years ago, we had a public hearing. the tenants marched down to have hearings here. i know the rules. what i'm seeing now, i want someone to pay close attention to what i'm saying.

i'm not new to this; i am true to this. you go through your process. myself, ace washington, i'm going to do my own independent. with the social media here hud knows that they are in trouble but they are doing the right thing by cutting off the funding. the mayor has to get rid of the of ministration, we all know that. have to get rid of alvarez. let him sleep out there with the tenants. right now the bottom line is the tenants. this audit will show that they are out of compliance; it would show that there are total violations and it is going to show the reason why i'm going to file an injunction, i'm going to hire angela alioto the

stopple procedures in the city and county that relates to african-american tenants; you are playing around here like we are playing games. those tenants are the one suffering. the authority is out of compliance. >> chair: thank you. >> i will come back of another chance. >> chair: any of the speakers for item 2. seeing none public comment is closed. gvl(gavel) we have a motion on the motion? >> i make a motion to move this item with a positive recommendation. >> chair: supervisor cohen do you want to say a few words? we have a motion to set the item forward with recommendations, narrowing down the focus of this item, many members of this

board whether on the committee or elsewhere will be feeding information to the analyst. we can move this forward without objection? thank you. do we have any other items? >> clerk calonsag: no other items. >> chair: thank you. we are adjourned.

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